Kate Sewel
Some contentious concepts and terms and preferable alternatives
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Some contentious concepts and terms and preferable alternatives
Terminology Child Sexual Exploitation Child Criminal Exploitation County Lines Contexts of ‘exchange’ Victim/Survivor Recovery Vulnerabilities Risky choices/poor decisions Child Perpetrator Disengaged/Hard to reach children Educate/Raise awareness (for prevention) Child has been sending explicit pictures to an adult Associating with/In a relationship with/Spending time with Gang/Gang members/Gang association Risk categories – High, Medium, Low Historical sexual abuse Child pornography Grooming Line Share your story Trauma informed language Some concepts and terms to consider Key considerations Preferred approaches Preferred terms Child Sexual Exploitation is Child Sexual Abuse. There is nothing wrong with the term child sexual exploitation per se, but, it is somewhat vague, and does not reflect the true harm, violence, or trauma children experience. Because the initial definition of CSE included a clause referring to children receiving something ‘in exchange’ for sexual exploitation, the term can still carry this connotation of ‘exchange’, implying that those who experience sexual abuse/exploitation receive something in exchange for their abuse, and are therefore, to some extent, complicit in their own abuse. This is insensitive and offensive, and can have serious implications in a range of ways, including: children feeling a sense of self-blame children not disclosing for fear of being blamed or judged influencing intervention responses (to be focused on a child, rather than the source of the harm, which is ineffective and inefficient/punitive) Use terms which are clear about the harm and crimes committed against children, which emphasise the presence of coercion/ coercive control, reflect the lack of control children have in abusive or exploitative situations, which emphasise the severity of the impact of abuse on children, and contain reference to the trauma a child experiences Use clear and specific language, and detailed descriptions of contexts/ characteristics of abuse Focus on the activity of the perpetrator, in order to place responsibility with them Avoid use of acronyms, which can be viewed as belittling experiences Sexual abuse/Child sexual abuse Coerced/enticed/ manipulated/ forced into Communicate specific characteristics of abuse through language such as: Groups of adults who used drugs as a way of grooming and controlling children before sexually abusing them Download 0.5 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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